Closer To Home, The Restoration Of Leighton House

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The "Closer to Home" project at Leighton House Museum, which ran from 2008 to 2010, focused on restoring the interiors of the house to their original Victorian splendor. This involved redecorating spaces based on historic accounts and photographs, returning objects from Leighton's collection, and recreating lost features like the flock wallpaper in the Dining Room and the ziggurats on the Arab Hall roof. The project also included regilding the dome in the Arab Hall. The book highlights the Reopening displays

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